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Month: February 2020

My Cup Runneth Over (black and white photograph)

That beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible

February 8, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés with the suffocating […]

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When human beings are transformed into commodities, what can their conversation be but trivial?

February 8, 2020 Paul Politis 0

Indeed, when human beings are transformed into commodities, what can their conversation be but trivial? Would commodities on the market, if they could speak, not […]

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Their faith is not strong enough to believe in the fertile possibilities of man without shutting their eyes

February 8, 2020 Paul Politis 0

The “realists” believe, of those who strive for kindness, that these latter mean well but that they are ingenuous, full of illusions—briefly, fools. And they […]

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Intellectual yokel

February 8, 2020 Paul Politis 0

A philosopher, which is what I am supposed to be, is a sort of intellectual yokel who gapes and stares at what sensible people take […]

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The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind

February 8, 2020 Paul Politis 0

I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one’s while to buy them. […]

A Clean Well-lighted Place Photoblog

“You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant café. It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.”

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    June 2, 2025
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    May 29, 2025
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    May 22, 2025
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    Panorama de Paris / Ballet (2 photos)

    May 18, 2025
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    Shadow dance (2 photos)

    May 15, 2025
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    Avian encounters

    May 12, 2025

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